Sunan Abi Dawud 2310
The Gravity Of Fornication
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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ كَثِيرٍ أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ عَنْ أَبِي وَائِلٍ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ شُرَحْبِيلَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ
قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَىُّ الذَّنْبِ أَعْظَمُ قَالَ أَنْ تَجْعَلَ لِلَّهِ نِدًّا وَهُوَ خَلَقَكَ قَالَ فَقُلْتُ ثُمَّ أَىٌّ قَالَ أَنْ تَقْتُلَ وَلَدَكَ مَخَافَةَ أَنْ يَأْكُلَ مَعَكَ قَالَ قُلْتُ ثُمَّ أَىٌّ قَالَ أَنْ تُزَانِيَ حَلِيلَةَ جَارِكَ قَالَ وَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى تَصْدِيقَ قَوْلِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ { وَالَّذِينَ لاَ يَدْعُونَ مَعَ اللَّهِ إِلَهًا آخَرَ وَلاَ يَقْتُلُونَ النَّفْسَ الَّتِي حَرَّمَ اللَّهُ إِلاَّ بِالْحَقِّ وَلاَ يَزْنُونَ } الآيَةَ
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Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. Kathīr
- Sufyān
- Manṣūr
- Abū Wāʾil
- ʿAmr b. Shuraḥbīl
- ʿAbdullāh
‘Abd Allaah (bin Masud) said “I asked Apostle of Allaah ﷺ which sin is the gravest?” He replied “That you associate someone with Allaah, while He has created you”. I again asked “Which then?” He replied “That you commit adultery with the wife of your neighbor.” Allaah then revealed the following Qur’anic verse in support of the statement of the Prophet ﷺ “Those who invoke not with Allaah any other god nor slay such life as Allaah has made sacred except for just cause nor commit fornication.”
Grades by grader
| al-Albani | Soundin صحيح أبي داود, p. 2310 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Zubair Ali Zai | Sahih Bukhari (6001) Sahih Muslim (141) | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- Dāraquṭnī
سئل عن حديث عمرو بن شرحبيل عن عبد الله قال رجل يا رسول الله أي الذنب أعظم الحديث فقال يرويه منصور عن أبي وائل عن أبي ميسرة عن عبد الله ورواه الأعمش واختلف عنه فرواه الثوري ومعمر وجرير وعبد الله بن نمير عن الأعمش عن أبي وائل عن عمرو بن شرحبيل عن عبد الله وخالفهم أبو شهاب الحناط وأبو معاوية الضرير وشيبان بن عبد الرحمن فرووه عن الأعمش عن أبي وائل عن عبد الله وكذلك رواه واصل الأحدب واختلف عنه فرواه الثوري وشعبة ومهدي بن ميمون عن واصل عن أبي وائل عن عبد الله ورواه عبد الرحمن بن مهدي عن الثوري عن واصل عن أبي وائل عن عمرو بن شرحبيل عن عبد الله ووهم على الثوري ورواه الحسن بن عبيد الله النخعي عن أبي وائل عن عبد الله والصحيح حديث عمرو بن شرحبيل
machine translationHe was asked about the hadith of ʿAmr b. Shuraḥbīl, from ʿAbdullāh, who said: A man said, "O Messenger of Allah, which sin is greatest?" – the hadith. He said: Manṣūr narrates it from Abū Wāʾil, from Abū Maysarah, from ʿAbdullāh. And al-Aʿmash narrated it, and there is disagreement about him. Al-Thawrī, Maʿmar, Jarīr and ʿAbdullāh b. Numayr narrated it from al-Aʿmash, from Abū Wāʾil, from ʿAmr b. Shuraḥbīl, from ʿAbdullāh. But Abū Shihāb al-Ḥannāṭ, Abū Muʿāwiyah al-Ḍarīr and Shaybān b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān contradicted them, and narrated it from al-Aʿmash, from Abū Wāʾil, from ʿAbdullāh. Likewise Wāṣil al-Aḥdab narrated it, and there is disagreement about him. Al-Thawrī, Shuʿbah and Mahdī b. Maymūn narrated it from Wāṣil, from Abū Wāʾil, from ʿAbdullāh. But ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Mahdī narrated it from al-Thawrī, from Wāṣil, from Abū Wāʾil, from ʿAmr b. Shuraḥbīl, from ʿAbdullāh, and he erred (wahima) regarding al-Thawrī. Al-Ḥasan b. ʿUbaydillāh al-Nakhaʿī narrated it from Abū Wāʾil, from ʿAbdullāh. The correct (ṣaḥīḥ) one is the hadith of ʿAmr b. Shuraḥbīl.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 2310
Other narrations of this report
Sunan an-Nasa'i 4014Sahih Ibn Hibban 4414Sahih Ibn Hibban 4416al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 11333al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 3464
Narrators
- One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), devout worshipper, mukhaḍramd. 63 AH, or: 61 AH, or 62 AH, or 63 AHعَمْرِو بْنِ شُرَحْبِيلَثقة عابد مخضرمعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said: 82 AH, Ibn Mandah said: 99 AHأَبِي وَائِلٍثقةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), and he did not commit tadlīs (lā yudallis)d. 132 AH, or 133 AHمَنْصُورٍثقة ثبت ، وكان لا يدلسعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), devout (ʿābid), an imam and authority (ḥujjah)d. 159 AH or 160 AH or 161 AH or 162 AHسُفْيَانُثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجةأنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah); those who declared him weak were not correct.d. 223 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ كَثِيرٍثقة ، لم يصب من ضعفهحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), the compiler of the Sunan and other works, one of the senior scholars.d. 275 AHأَبُو دَاوُدَ السِّجِسْتَانِيُّثقة ، حافظ , مصنف السنن وغيرها ، من كبار العلماء
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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Commentaries
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